Fiery Piggy Balls, an extra spicy appetizer wrapped in bacon, of course, for game day. Happily we just got some wonderful and extra zingy sauces from All Spice Café, so we knew we could put their Cayenne Habanero Sauce to good use. This is a variation of our “Chipotle Bacon Bombs” using hot sausage balls instead of ground beef. You can use mild sausage if you prefer, but Ken wanted hot. It didn’t have a lot of ingredients, but it sure had a lot of zip.
These guys are OFF THE HOOK!!! Eat them off a stick, out of hand or in a sandwich, with or without more sauce. The flavors of the sausage, bacon and Cayenne Habanero Sauce jump together with the flavors of the grill!!! Patti thinks these should be served with a lot of vanilla ice cream…just sayin’.
Patti and I have set one night a week just for us. It’s our date night. We usually put something special on our Green Mountain Wood Pellet Grill/Smoker but sometimes we cook inside. We always eat outside on our patio where it is very comfortable with a rainforest theme. Wood Pellet Patio Heater, little lights, candles, lanterns and surround sound. We enjoy a little wine, or strawberry margaritas using frozen strawberries for ice, good food, music and sometimes a dance or two…
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Fiery Piggy Balls A Pellet Grill Recipe
Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook Time: 30 minutes @ 350* (177c) Grill: Green Mountain Wood Pellet Grill/Smoker Pellets: Green Mountain’s Texas Blend BBQ Pellet
Ingredients: Fiery Piggy Balls
- 2lbs. bulk hot Italian sausage
- 15 half slices of bacon
- All Spice Café Cayenne Habanero Sauce, to taste
- Chipotle powder, to taste
- 5 wooden skewers, soaked in water for 5 minutes
Fiery Piggy Balls A Pellet Grill Recipe
Fiery Piggy Balls A Pellet Grill Recipe
Directions: Fiery Piggy Balls
Form sausage into ¼ cup balls, we had 15 Fiery Piggy Balls.
In large lightly greased cast iron skillet cook sausage balls until no longer pink.
Remove and drain on paper towels.
When cool enough to handle wrap with bacon.
Place 3 bacon wrapped sausage balls on each skewer.
Sprinkle with chipotle powder and your ready for the grill.
Preheat the grill grates to 350* (177c). When bacon starts to crisp up brush generously with sauce.
Pull when the bacon is crisp to your liking…
I use a Maverick ProTemp Instant Read Thermometer for checking meat temps.
Note: I get a lot of questions about the kind of pellets you can use with a recipe. Keep in mind that a recipe is just an outline. Some you need to follow closely like when you are making bread, but most you can do anything you can dream, our favorite way to cook. Feel free to mix and match the pellets until you find a combination you really like. Also you are only smoking at temps less than 250 degrees (122c), anything higher is cooking and there will not be much if any smoke so it does not matter what kind of pellet you are using.
Fiery Piggy Balls A Pellet Grill Recipe
Fiery Piggy Balls A Pellet Grill Recipe
About our Recipes
We do our recipes on our patio where we have a lineup of grills, including Green Mountain, Uuni Wood Fired Pizza Oven, Sawtooth, Louisiana, Royall, Memphis, Traeger pellet grills, Char Griller side box smoker, Saber, Charmglow, Char-Broil, The Big Easy, Lodge Sportsman’s, Brinkman and Weber. I call it our “Wall of Grill”. Our grilling styles are healthy and low fat and will fit pelletheads, gas, natural wood and even charcoal purists. Almost any of our recipes can be done on any kind of good BBQ.
The important thing to keep in mind is TIME & TEMPERATURE. You can do our recipes on any grill, even some of them in the oven or crock pot, but, then you lose all the flavors you get from cooking outdoors. But sometimes it does rain.
Remember that a recipe is simply an outline; it is not written in stone. Don’t be afraid to make changes to suit your taste. Take it and run with it….
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